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Technology is driving a lot of changes around the world including here in Malaysia. But who's doing what ?.. where ?.. how ? What drives these entrepreneuers & tech leaders ? Where did it all begin ?
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S02E12 - Building a brand beyond just building a business.. with BrandGeeks
When you build a business, do you have a purpose ? Can you build it to become more by building a brand ? The dynamic duo from BrandGeeks, Manisah & Si...

S02E11 - Prof Yasmin on commercialising university IPs
Professor Yasmin was a hard core researcher in virology since the late 80s. Whilst deep in plant molecular biology and biotech research, she had a sho...

S02E10 - Arief is a consumate entrepreneur and Serv is his next adventure
Having observed first hand the successes and failures of family businesses, he plotted his entreprenueral roadmap during his days in school. Even at...

S02E09 - Azran's always up for a challenge, and it has shaped his journey so far
Azran has had an exciting career so far, from consultancy to being an entrepreneur. From helping others build their business, to putting his foot in a...

S02E08 - The challenges of growing a business during COVID, how is Hisham doing it for Monthley
Hisham has worked for 18 companies before setting his own system development company. As they developed systems for others, he saw an opportunity to b...

S02E05 - Indy thinks consumerism is not sustainable and feels renting could be one of the answers
Buying his bicycle bag (and only using it once) followed by realising that his other cycling buddies could have lent it to him made Indy realise that...

S02E07 - How did it all begin for Malek Ali and is he driven by an agenda greater than just profit ?
A lawyer by qualification (and profession briefly), Malek had a front row seat to Web 1.0 and saw first hand how Silicon Valley was changing the world...

S02E06 - Typically a taboo topic but Queenie wants you to help prepare for the next stage with Memori
After several deaths in the family whilst studying abroad, Queenie realised there seemed to be a need to support families manage funeral arrangements....

S02E04 - Max wants to solve your public transport woes with Justnaik
Winning a hackathon with a bus scheduling app for customers, Max decided to pursue the idea. But as he delved deeper into the bus industry, and lookin...

S02E03 - Dato Wei has come a long way from Kota Bharu to bringing a startup to listing and now giving back to the nation
Starting his career with HP, Dato Wei saw the convergance of computing and telephony, and decided to quit and with a few friends, developed a product...

S02E02 - Pinjam.co's Huzaifah learnt that an entrepreneur can create the perfect solution that nobody needs
Fresh as a software engineer back from Canada, Huzaifah jumped straight into his first startup and started building the perfect solution... and kept b...

S02E01 - Direct Lending, Yik Seongs journey from corporate suit to a fintech startup
Yik Seong was an accountant with the big four followed by a large bank and spent most of his career in the UK. Deciding to return to Malaysia, he gave...

Episode 52 - Do startups need to engage a PR firm ? What do they do ? iOli gives the low down
Yan Lim's journey to running her own PR firm was almost accidental, like most intersting journeys. From just freelancing on a big gig, to suddenly fin...

EP 50 - Easyparcel Part 2. We visit their office and find out more about Clarences time in UK
Wanting to do it by himself, Clarence insisted to work his way through university in UK. How did he do that ? And why the move from UK back to Penang...

Episode 51 - How does one person try to digitise the construction industry ?
Pui Mun worked on a contruction project for a few months and immediately saw all the inefficiencies, silos and leakages in the business. What she didn...

Episode 47 - Easyparcel Part 1 , with an aerospace engineering background, does easyparcel deliver faster ?
Leaving a good job from UK, Clarence decided to come home and start selling vouchers online. Was he mad or was the need to scratch that entreprenerush...

Episode 48 - One of Penangs favourite tech sons, Chan, talks Exabytes
How do you convince your parents you dont want to study anymore ? How do you conquer the tech world from Penang ? Is running a tech business from the...

Episode 49 - Leading the telemedicine pack with DoctorOnCall
Maran stumbled into the medicine line, whilst an ex-colleague Hazwan decided to stumble into it with him. From just a handful of doctors on the platfo...

Episode 46 - From Perak to Silicon Valley and back.. what is Ariffin searching for ?
Like all interesting people, Ariffin's journey has interesting twist and turns. From quitting school, going in to the music industry, becoming the gro...

Episode 45 - The first peer to peer car rental service in Malaysia keeps on mooving
The corporate world was too slow for Nik and he picked up key lessons from several startups before venturing on his own with Moovby. As usual, it alwa...

Episode 44 - Let's interview the interviewer for a change Mr Karamjit
If you don't know Mr Karamjit Singh... you can stop here. For the rest of us, he has been giving us the tech news on our side of the world for as lon...

Episode 43 - Katsana hacks the driver and can change your behavior
Syed Ahmad Fuqaha started from taking support calls to tracking vehicles. How exciting was it to track their first stolen car in real time ? And using...

Episode 42 - A day trip to KL became a much longer stay
Heading to Singapore with no business idea yet, Hajime decided to move to Malaysia instead thanks to MDEC. He then started building a shopping mall ap...

Episode 41 - No, digitising education is far beyond having classes on Zoom
As CEO, Tan Lin Nah has an exciting role to steer INTI into the digital age of education. As she looks forward, she draws experience and insight from...

Episode 40 - A social entreprise, Suncrox Solar strives to bring light to families off the grid
Noor Shahiwan graduated in biology, but somehow it bugged him why there were still areas in Malaysia without electricity. He decided to embark on brin...

Episode 39 - In which direction will Rafiza take Cradle to in it's next phase of the marathon ?
A chartered accountant, Rafiza started from the corporate finance world to strategy and innovation, and now she'll bring all that experience to Cradle...

EP38 - Large Tech can really help the small tech, just ask Peter
Peter Tam has worked with quite a few of the large tech giants who are household names, Accenture, Microsoft, IBM and Apple. Throughout, he's always u...

Episode 37 - Qwikwire found a niche for cross border settlement for property developers
Ray worked in the family business even as a teenager, and saw the harsh realities of entrepreneurship early in his life. He even franchised a cafe bus...

Episode 36 - Ashran from Dattel knows more about you than you do
Ashran left Petronas and started on his tech entrepreneurship journey with web development and started on the video streaming idea even before YouTube...

Episode 35 - Dr Siva on funding to helping local startups grow
How did a corporate consultant with no tech background start from the world of telexes to VCs, fund raising, creating Technopreneurs Assoc. Malaysia (...

Episode 34 - Marcus Von Engel hits you with some mat salleh perspective of Asia
Twenty five years ago this Californian decided to head off to the mysterious far east and landed in Malaysia. Since then he's lived in the main cities...

Episode 33 - The many faces of creative champ Shamsul Nashriq from MotioFixo
Shamsul Nashriq or popularly known as Shamnash kicked off his entrepreneural creative journey as a student in uni. Websites, rock videos, 3D visualise...

Episode 32 - Michael Reyes wants all your kids to have the best start in understanding money
When you learn that Michael left NUS to do a double degree in Malaysia and work part time as a lecturer, you know he's single minded and driven. Not b...

Episode 31 - BrandGeeks want to make your brand legendary
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In a Tech This Way first, I have both co-founders on the hot seat. Naturally we had to get into how they met! As for bran...

Episode 30 - Hasnul has helped put Malaysia's digital creative content on the map, and it's a long story
A tech and game geek at heart, Hasnul jumped straight into MDC after graduating, as employee no 9, helping drive the MSC and building awareness on wha...

Episode 29 - PichaEats has grown from a project to a full business helping refugees earn through cooking
Yuet Kim Lim, Lee Swee Lin and Suzanne Ling are university mates who in 2013 started volunteeting in a refugee learning centre. This lead to the idea...

Episode 28 - Mohd Atasha started as an entreprenuer, then wanted to see how the government works, followed by businesses and now how to save them
FoxyMojo is just a platform for Mohd Atasha to pursue his next adventure. Born an entreprenuer, he then was curious about how government agencies work...

Episode 27 - PopCon helps companies be more visible online. Nina tells all
TV Host and Actor, Nina, wants to help people & brands POP online by developing them into SEA's Business Influencers. That's a bold claim.. can just a...

Episode 26 - Meraki is Greek for doing something you truely love, that you put something of yourself into it
Siti Mariam Samin didnt realise she's an entrepreneur all her life. It came natural to her to identify a need, and fulfilling it whilst making a few b...

Episode 25 - Takahara Suiko speaks through music and how technology is allowing her to reach directly to her fans
Takahara Suito doesn't so much compose music but releases them from her system like a pressure valve. In an unconventional path to being a musician, s...